• Providing health education to families and caregivers regarding essential guidelines in caring for patients with Alzheimer's disease
• Collaborating with patients' families and/or caregivers regarding the plan of care for patients
• Maintaining patients' safety at all times and assisting with safe transfer and ambulation when necessary
• Providing adequate hydration and nutrition to patients
• Promoting social interactions as well as providing cognitive exercises to keep their minds active
• Maintaining consistency in patients' environment. Drastic changes can cause anxiety and agitation.
• Making sure that compliance to medication is always achieved
• Using therapeutic communication to patients and reorienting them to the present as necessary
• Facilitating or encouraging patients to reminisce about their past
• Carrying out orders based on decided plan of care by nurses and doctors

Emotional and social support is very important when caring for patients with Alzheimer's disease. This condition greatly affects an entire family at once. Hearts and Hands Homecare has just the right guides and companions for your loved ones. For more information, you may contact us at - 801-645-1089.